Our
Bureau
of
Muppets claim to be able to forecast the WX decades in the future though give them a three month forecast time frame and its a SNAFU..
Apparently Victoria weren't going to get much rain: Issued by the BoM on 16/11/17. Chance of exceeding the median rainfall Dec 2017 to Feb 2018:
Archive – Climate outlook maps
Further BoM clusterfecks exposed here:
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=5446
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